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The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra Meets the Quartet of Happiness.....AGAIN!!!

Presented by Quartet of Happiness at Lily Pad

March 19, 2011

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This show will feature both the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra and Quartet of Happiness as they perform their own original material and some unique QOH/AIJO collaborative big band music!

The Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra (AIJO) is a full big band based in Boston that has performed with Bob Brookmeyer, George Garzone, Joe Lovano and Frank Tiberi at venues such as the Berklee Performance Center, The Zeitgeist Gallery/Lily Pad, the Western Front Club and Jazz at Lincoln Center Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in NYC. The ensemble performs originals and arrangements of Ayn Inserto, who is highly influenced by Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider and Jim McNeely.

Quartet of Happiness takes modern jazz and infuses it with a hefty dose of cheekiness and irreverent humor, wrapping it all up in the sort of theatrics reminiscent of Blue Man Group. The group has made it its mission to take jazz out of the ivory tower and make it accessible to a wide-ranging audience. Playing games, wearing costumes, and engaging the audience with their antics, the Quartet of Happiness’ performances are at times reminiscent of a cross between an improv comedy show and a theater of the bizarre. It’s part jazz, part performance art, and all of it the child of insane wit.